Seth: "You know him from his work on The Good Wife..." Me: "nope. That's Floop from Spy Kids"

After reading his book, you realise he endured more as a little boy in Scotland than most people do their whole lives. Amazing man.

I LOVE that he properly used the word "burgled," rather than "robbed."

@LovelyMagpie

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I’m also passionate about language accuracy😅

@whatevs00

2 жыл бұрын

burglary is when no one is present? right? robbery is taking something from a person?

@kidlitfanful

2 жыл бұрын

buuuuurrrrrglllled

@AG-kp4sh

2 жыл бұрын

i prefer burglurd.

@anncoffman4448

2 жыл бұрын

Now y'all got me thinking about Ronald's nemesis, the Hamburgler!

Alan Cumming is the most charming and funny guest ever for talk shows. And he never eases up on his Scottish accent.

@robingarrett3171

2 жыл бұрын

Previously not familiar but am now a totally agreeing fan!

@lindadeal3344

Жыл бұрын

Love that he's from Scotland and Abercrombie runs through my blood thanks to mom!!

Alan has been in so many small but pivotal roles in movies and TV shows. It's always fascinating to hear him speak. Uninterrupted! Hope the audience don't come back .

@agranger1087

2 жыл бұрын

He disappears into every roll if you're not looking for him you don't always recognize him expecially when he hides his accent. Dude was freaking nightcrawler. NIGHTCRAWLER

@kathrynstull6158

2 жыл бұрын

He's my favorite! Check him out in The Anniversary Party if you can find it.

If you haven't read his memoir "Not My Father's Son," I highly recommend that you do. It's beautifully written. He did his own reading for the audio book, which you can find easily online.

@andjulia9292

2 жыл бұрын

I was just going to post the same comment, then I saw yours. It’s a wonderful book.

@globalwarmhugs7741

2 жыл бұрын

@@andjulia9292 I'm a huge fan of the Frinckazoid.

@Span91423

2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Wonderful book!

@joanneweiss3864

2 жыл бұрын

The only autobiography I've ever listened to, I couldn't stop! As if I didn't love him enough before❤️❤️❤️

@globalwarmhugs7741

2 жыл бұрын

@@joanneweiss3864 My feeling precisely. I've listened to it twice now.

I fkn love Alan! So funny and charming. Has a kind word to say about everyone and tells such funny stories. No awkwardness in this guy. Great guest.

Alan Cumming is a fantastic actor! I very much admire him.

Adorable man

One of the best Interviewees in the world....

@Hollins23

2 жыл бұрын

You've got to be kidding!!

@ticketyboo2456

2 жыл бұрын

Dr Ari Chand you don't have to be a great interviewer when you've got Alan Cumming as a guest to be fair.

@maggiegibbons2890

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best interviewees!

@byarichand

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I meant interviewees!

"I'm a bad musical queer person" hahahahaha omg same

My favorite guest so far and I'm a long term fan. Much love to Alan Cummings! A true icon. I love the chemistry between these too. I want to know more about their history together.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

Right?! From the very begining he came on & did a song from Cabaret. The best. Also love his story about the Carlyle

@fairygurl9269

2 жыл бұрын

He Is a Beutiful Human 💫

He’s an international treasure but also a very fun and warm person if you ever had the chance to meet him.

@gratefulslug1390

Жыл бұрын

Have you?

@AtWordsPoetic

Жыл бұрын

@@gratefulslug1390 Yes, multiple times. One time, I was at his bar in the East Village and he hosted a Tony Awards party for all the patrons and he bought pizza for us all and gave away prizes in a trivia game and we were all gloriously drunk.

@gratefulslug1390

Жыл бұрын

@@AtWordsPoetic lol that's awesome!

I fell in love with Alan years ago when I saw him in Circle of Friends with Minnie Driver. He played a nasty piece of work, but he was memorable! Great movie, catch it if you can.

Congratulations Isabelle 🎉

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

2 жыл бұрын

🧁 🧁

I love the hilarious muffins story towards the end.

I am SHOOK at the revelation that he's not a huge musical theatre fan.

I miss Alan Cumming in "Instinct"-- ran for 2 seasons on CBS, then was canceled.

He’s amazing in Strange Music! Absolutely rocked in it!

Kristin Chenoweth is great in singing, fairy tale like shows. I thinking of Pushing Daisies . Can't wait to see her in this new show. :D

@rwmorey71

2 жыл бұрын

I loved Pushing Daises!! Such an underrated show.

@agnesadjo3370

2 жыл бұрын

Was she in Pushing Dasies? I so wanted to watch it when it first came out but could never find a way to watch it. If she's in it it's time to try a bit harder to find it

@barryreinitz7331

2 жыл бұрын

Pushing Daisies was a GREAT GREAT SHOW

@rwmorey71

2 жыл бұрын

@@barryreinitz7331 It was! My wife didn't really like it but then we watched "Halt and Catch Fire" that Lee Pace was in and she really liked that so she gave "Pushing Daises" another chance and enjoyed it.

I loved this singing scene in Schmigadoon so much 😂😂

Sometimes when I see that Alan Cumming has been made again to drop his Scottish accent for a role and speak American, it makes me think it would be so much better if everyone else just spoke with a Scottish accent so that he didn't have to change his. :)

@Raven1303x

2 жыл бұрын

It’s probably because most actors can’t do, or butcher the Scottish accent. Not that I blame them. It’s a hard accent to learn.

@bostonblackie9503

2 жыл бұрын

Sean Connery never dropped his accent. He played a captain on a Russian submarine with a Scottish accent.

@kimberlyloranger8321

2 жыл бұрын

@@bostonblackie9503 I saw him in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Harrison Ford put on a Scottish accent when he was trying to get into a castle too (delivering tapestries). It was a pretty funny scene. Great movie too.

@Raven1303x

2 жыл бұрын

@@bostonblackie9503 that’s because Sean Connery is Scottish 😂👍. He’s from Edinburgh.

@sewgatormomm

Жыл бұрын

@@Raven1303x I guess you missed the Russian submarine part of that comment, lol.

I did not want to miss this...Alan is brilliant. Especially enjoyed PBS Masterpiece.

I want Cecily on Late Night to promote this show just to get 20 minutes of her and Seth talking

I love Alan Cummings! Also he's the best narrator of the audiobooks Leviathan.

@sarahshipley6535

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know that!!!

@anncoffman4448

2 жыл бұрын

After reading all these comments, I now have a list of movies to watch and books to read that should keep me busy for next several months. Thanks for the heads-up!

I love Alan!!! There is just something about him. Want that man in my life. I think he would be such an interesting (and fun) person to be around….

I love @alancumming!!!! that smile that voice and his sense of humour just unique qualities! Please globetrot to Chile

My Canadian passport was eaten by a reindeer... in Maine, of all places. So I feel for ya.

@NewMessage

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLieselMD I was pulling another reindeer's antlers out of a fence... and she just came up behind me, and yoinked it from my back pocket. I got part of it back, but most of it was.. um.. unrecoverable. My fault for having it on me that day, really. 🤷‍♂️

@maryroberts589

2 жыл бұрын

@@NewMessage I love this whole story so much!

@3souris

2 жыл бұрын

That was Blitzen. Santa put him up to it. He deals in stolen passports for his illegal alien elves.

@lornarettig3215

2 жыл бұрын

This made my day 🦌

@AlanHope2013

2 жыл бұрын

I can't compete with the reindeer story, but I once had my passport stolen on holiday in France, and decided just to chance it on returning to Dover. At the desk I started to explain to the guy what had happened, and he was like, mate, you can't be a fake with an accent like that, on you go. I'm from Glasgow.

Alan Cummings is the BESt storyteller! I've seen him as well on Graham Norton and he's a stitch!

We absolutely loved having Alan in Adelaide and definitely heard about Mariano and also the muffins! Such fun! I would add that Australia has been one of the safest countries to live in during the last year and still is. We've been locking down and getting rid of any virus quickly - except for one state. Stay safe Alan and all.

It’s warms me how Alan wouldn’t know Olivia Rodrigo’s name but still has the grace to say she’s lovely 😊.

It would be WONDERFUL if Seth went Day Drinking with Alan Cumming 😍

I love, love Alan Cumming! He was incredible in Broadway’s “Cabaret!” Did you know he played the nerdy Russian computer hacker in James Bond’s “Goldeneye?” “I am INVINCIBLE!”

I can't even begin to describe how much I love this man.

When Kristin Chenoweth was performing with Seattle Men's Chorus one number required her to wear an outlandish headdress. Someone sent her my way when she asked who designed the headdress, because all she had was the first name of Tom. I had to redirect her to the correct Tom, unfortunately, as she approached. She is absolutely adorable, and talented.

@HairynosedWombat163

2 жыл бұрын

She was also great in The West Wing. I have always followed her career since then. So talented.

I’m glad to see Alan!!!! He’s so talented!!!

I could listen to him talk forever. I love him! Such a brilliant storyteller and such a wit!

Winnie Wallace...Read ,Not my Father's Son, a couple of years ago. Will now be a fan for life. Love you Al, you're hugely talented and a very funny raconteur.

I have a major crush on this man!

I've been singing Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lerner & Loewe since I was 4 years old! I sang all the songs throughout my childhood. I knew all the references of the songs of Schmigadoon.

Without the note, muffins ARE a thoughtful gesture. The family is usually stuck there all day, snacks are really useful.

@AshleyVN

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, especially if someone else sends a bouquet of whisky...

@cathithomas2888

2 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyVN Lmasssso

@taylordani11

2 жыл бұрын

Way to totally miss the point. She obviously didn't know she was dead, derp.

@robingarrett3171

2 жыл бұрын

@@taylordani11 wait. Help me out. Who missed the point?

@taylordani11

2 жыл бұрын

@@robingarrett3171 Tracie Irene missed it by ignoring the humor of the misunderstanding. It goes without saying that muffins are a good gift.

Nothing about this man will ever change from his only role he ever mattered in... "I AM IIINVIIIIINCIBLE" Goldeneye 007

@markatkinson9963

2 жыл бұрын

In think he should be a "Bond" villian.

I think Alan was like the Mayor of Munchkin Land or the Emerald City or whatever in the Wizard of Oz.

God I love his accent. I love Scottish accents. They're some of the most beautiful sounding accents in the world.

He is such a sweet man. Watching him in Who Do You Think You Are was really moving.

I am invincible!

I can't help but imagine the Bog King and the Sugar Plum Fairy (their Strange Magic characters) doing exactly that.

I love Alan Cumming but can I just say I love you who comment and apart of this community

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

2 жыл бұрын

You’ve got a lovely name.

I adore Alan Cumming....

I have enjoyed all of your talents that have come within my reach. Thank you

I absolutely adore Alan Cummings and his body of work!!!

Love this guy and he is fabulous...maybe a duo with Randy Rainbow 🌈 would be warranted and so appreciated!!

My gosh I knew he was Scottish but I had no idea how thick his accent was, we stan

Love Alan Cumming...could just listen to him read the telephone book!!

seth has such good chemistry w every guest. it’s so fun to watch.

Not Sorry at all that I think I love Alan Cumming.

OMG! The muffin story is too funny.

I always forget he’s Scottish 😂

@alikaandrade3435

2 жыл бұрын

I’m shocked by his accent EVERY time. I don’t know why I never learn lol

@brigettehinton6713

2 жыл бұрын

So do I!!! I will sometimes almost remember but I still mess up and think he’s British 🤦🏻‍♀️.

@tesssully4250

2 жыл бұрын

Not just Scottish VERY Scottish 😶 I've never heard his actual voice before and I'm trippin 😅 he's awesome

@johnburnside7828

2 жыл бұрын

@@tesssully4250 No, he's not VERY Scottish. You can still understand him.

@anncoffman4448

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnburnside7828 😂😂 Good one!

Even funnier that he doesn't know Musicals and Brigadoon is set in Scotland too!

@HairynosedWombat163

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it just slipped his mind:)

He is an excellent story teller!

See Alan in "Plunkett & Macleane" (1999) you will NOT be disappointed.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

So good. With young Liv Tyler

@blackbird5634

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 For me she will always be ''young Liv Tyler" Stealing Beauty was absolutely magic!

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

black bird Absolutely! Classic beauty. Just watched a tour of her old East Village TH on AG. Sold the NYC place, living in London now. Didn't know her at the time but Mrs. James Bond was in Stealing Beauty as well.

@blackbird5634

2 жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 Jeremy Irons, and the entire European cast whom we see in smaller films but rarely in the US on the big screen just hit a home run with that one. I spent half a year in Italy and that scenery just brought me back.

@samanthab1923

2 жыл бұрын

black bird You're very lucky, have not been to Italy yet. Found Jeremy Irons in Brideshead & always enjoy him. Have a great weekend 😊

He's a great story teller.

OMG !!! What a terrific story

He’s a doll!

Point taken, Alan... No one says "buggerized", do they? ; )

@AshleyVN

2 жыл бұрын

Only when there have been multiple buggerings...

@usaskjock

2 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyVN as a gay man in lockdown in Australia I’d take a good multiple buggering in a heartbeat lmao 🤣

Fun story: I was Burgled when I lived in Chicago. Called my mom to tell her 'I WAS ROBBED!' while the cops were inspecting my apartment and they were very keen to correct me and say, 'Actually, you were burgled. A robbery involves violent theft.' Thanks. . . That makes it so much better.

The short bit of singing Alan Cummings did in the clip sounded "South Pacific"ish

@anncoffman4448

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly the musical "era" they are trying to reproduce. I remember listening to my mother's vinyl records of South Pacific, Oklahoma, The King and I, several others. Such wonderful memories.

OMG he looks like he smells fantastic 👏 😍

@hannacook859

2 жыл бұрын

What does that even mean? Also, how much time do you spend sniffing people and why?

CORRECTION Seth’s comment on using robbed vs burgled. I thought about this when Alan first said burgled - what’s the difference between being burgled and being robbed? Burglary specifically refers to a home being broken into and stolen from, whereas robbing can happen anywhere. You can be robbed on the street or in a park, but you can only be burgled at home.

@GalinDray

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of! Burglary specifically refers to your things being stolen while no one is there. Your car could be burgled for instance. Robbed means that you are present, your house is robbed if you are there. If you're mugged on the street you were robbed because you were present. It sounds nitpick but it's a BIG legal difference because the thief potentially threatened your life during a robbery whereas a burglary isn't a direct threat to your person

@ForAnAngel

2 жыл бұрын

You are both wrong. Burgled means stealing from someone without the use of violence and robbing someone includes the use or threat of violence. Doesn't matter where it happens or who is there. Someone can burglerize your home even if you are home if they steal from you without coming into contact with you.

@3souris

2 жыл бұрын

So the Ham Burglar steals your cold dead hamburgers when you're not home, rather than from your hands like a Ham Robber?

@oneworld2233

2 жыл бұрын

This is a good discussion! I looked up on several sources, and here are the definitions: - Theft: when someone intentionally takes and carries away, uses, transfers, conceals, or retains possession of movable property of another without the other’s consent and with intent to deprive the owner permanently of possession of such property. - Burglary: when someone intentionally unlawfully enters a building, structure or vehicle without the consent of the person in lawful possession and with intent to steal or commit a crime including, but not limited to, theft. - Robbery: when someone takes property from the person or presence of the owner by either using force or by threatening the imminent use of force. So burglary means you illegally entered a building/vehicle to commit a crime, whether or not a person was there. Robbery means you stole something using or threatening force against a person. And theft is the generic umbrella term for illegally taking possessions. Sources: Merriam Webster: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglary Cornell Law: www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burglary , www.law.cornell.edu/wex/robbery#:~:text=The%20unlawful%20taking%20of%20property,use%20of%20threat%20or%20force. , www.law.cornell.edu/wex/theft#:~:text=The%20generic%20term%20for%20all,use%20(including%20potential%20sale). Hart Powell - Milwaukee: www.kohlerandhart.com/articles/theft-burglary-and-robbery-key-differences/. Find Law: www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/burglary-overview.html , www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/robbery-overview.html

@geekdivaherself

2 жыл бұрын

@@oneworld2233 O! EM! _GEE!!!_ The www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglary#faqs section has the most _hilariously_ sounding words that I have GOT to bring back into parlance somehow: Other Words from _burglary_ burglarious \ ˌbər-​ˈgler-​ē-​əs \ _adjective_ burglariously _adverb_

i watched the first few episodes of the new show it is awesome :-D

That muffin story 💀💀💀

Alan, you can have extra pages added to your passport at the embassy or closest consulate!

hilArious 🤣

I was meant to see his show in Sydney but we are in lockdown now hopefully we get told a new date sometime soon I don't wanna wait ages & not hear what's happening.

i just cannot omg hahhahha

Hey, as an Australian, I’d point out that our current “crisis” involves a hundred or so cases and zero deaths in a day. Everything is relative, isn’t it? And our vaccination rate is not satisfactory, but it is actually at around 40%.

@missjulyyy

2 жыл бұрын

also we want them, it's just our feds stuffing it up

@nartarlyiatremaynne1239

2 жыл бұрын

I concur with your sentiment 100% Melbourne Australia.

@MrTaylor1964

2 жыл бұрын

40% I don’t think so.

@petergosney6433

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTaylor1964 you are right - 30% (my apologies). Admittedly that is first doses, but note that the advice for optimum potency is to delay 2nd dose until a full 12 weeks and this has inhibited the Australian full vaccination rate over other countries with more urgent problems. UK has shortened interval to as little as 4 weeks.

@usaskjock

2 жыл бұрын

I’m a Canadian doctor working in Melbourne Australia, they did stuff it up a bit at the beginning particularly with regard to the role out with GP clinics, but they seem to have gotten their act together now and it’s going much smoother

I loved "anniversary party"

@anncoffman4448

2 жыл бұрын

Now that I know of it, I will have to borrow from the Library. Also other movies as well as the books he has authored. 🤓

It's cute how excited Seth is to see him xD Alan looks like a Willy Wonka/PeeWee hybrid in that Good Wife clip, it's amazing and slightly frightening

I had tickets for that Australian tour 😞

Americans don't say "burgled" because it's actually a strange back-formation from the noun "burglar". It's like saying that a butcher butches, or a cougar cougs. When the noun has been formed from a verb, like "farmer", of course you can go back to "farm". But the British verb "burgle" came after the noun. We made it up because it sounds right, not because it makes any more or less grammatical sense than "burglarize". I like the idea of cougars couging though.

I always laugh when i read that surname, lmao

I was eating muffins while I watched this... 😅

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

2 жыл бұрын

I hope they aren’t funeral muffins?

@vamanosninja4143

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 no they were gluten free muffins

@vamanosninja4143

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 if Kristen Chenowith sent me funeral muffins I would gladly eat them!

@barbarajoseph-adam8337

2 жыл бұрын

@@vamanosninja4143 Oh, that’s good. I’ve lost so many people this pandemic - family, friends, employees... my brain just went straight there.

@vamanosninja4143

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 I'm sorry to hear that

Bernard and the Genie. Hamlet, Cabaret, The High Life - the career that was

Love that fake Scottish accent! LOL, never ceases to surprise me, love this actor.

@sharonaxelrod4608

2 жыл бұрын

Fake?

@parisking2445

5 ай бұрын

Dude it's his real accent lmao

Congratulations, nobody deserves it more. 😂

I miss Adelaide so much.

Oh, dammit, Alan, I've watched this before, I've heard you tell that absolutely fabulous Kristin story before and still I have had an 'accident' laughing so hard.

That’s a Loki variant

As of January 9, 2022, over 92% of Australians are at least double vaccinated against COVID.

Come to Vacationland. Maybe you will be allowed to leave. Hahaha, maybe

the audience didn't know what to do with that information LMAO

The villain of Spy Kids!

Seth loved the impersonation!

I love both of these guys but it is worth noting that Australia is not even close to America in terms of Covid impact. 1 in 750 Australians has tested positive for COVID vs 1 in 10 Americans. But I do agree our vaccine roll out has been awful

@tomoftaipei

2 жыл бұрын

Americans talk this way seeming to forget 600k of them died before they all got vaccines...

Depends on the context and pov. "I was burgled." "He committed a burglary." "They where burglarized."

@telectronix1368

2 жыл бұрын

It's "burgled". 'I was burgled. He/She/They were burgled. You were burgled.'

@samcroft7084

2 жыл бұрын

Nope... your "I' and your "They" examples are the same structure. The real difference is: You were burgled in Scotland and burglarized in the US.

@telectronix1368

2 жыл бұрын

@@samcroft7084 Or, 'Alan got it right'. 😁

Damn Alan is looking hot

He's such an amazing storyteller and sooooo cute!

He should be a "Bond" villian.

MUFFINS!

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